I think the White House just found the golden ticket to wreck Anthropic.

i can think of no circumstance where an ai model that is a critical national security risk for foreigners somehow becomes safe for all americans to use.

Lick Trump's nuts or he'll destroy your company.

Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.

I’ve now seen that the Fable block is a conspiracy to hurt Anthropic’s IPO and a conspiracy to gin up excitement for Anthropic’s IPO. The truth is there is no deep meaning here; Trump is a chimpanzee who shits in his hand and throws it to prove his dominance.

So we’re just going to pretend Trump has “export control authority” to restrict foreigners on US soil from using or working on products because we’re afraid of him?

> any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States Wait what? Is there any precedent for an export control applying to immigrants in the US?

John XII turned a Roman cathedral into a brothel, allegedly assaulted female pilgrims in St. Peter’s, and died in another man’s bed at 27. Leo XIV said be compassionate to immigrants.

I call bs. (Also, it's ANY foreign access. I'm an American with an American account in Northern Ireland and I'm locked out.)

Umm… Ok, I know there are passages where the angels have >2 appendages. But I think those are usually wings, and I think the number is never 3. Also, is America made of hands?

Fight? It's a fight between Jean-Claude Van Damme and a soap bubble.

With respect, Britannica went down 16 years ago, when the last edition stopped being printed. Britannica.com is hosted on AWS EC2, so the website goes down every time Amazon goes down.

🐙🐙🐙With our new poll showing that 51% of Britons like octopuses, here's what the public think are acceptable plural terms for 'octopus' Octopi: 57% Octopuses: 37% Octopus: 21% Octopodes: 4% (Respondents could choose multiple options)

The water math on AI is the most misunderstood statistic in tech, so let's actually run it. A ChatGPT query uses about 0.3 mL of water for cooling, per OpenAI's own disclosure. The harshest academic estimate, which also counts the water consumed by the power plants feeding the servers, lands at 10 to 25 mL. Call it half a tablespoon at the absolute worst case. Now the comparisons. One hamburger takes roughly 2,500 liters of water to produce. That single burger equals somewhere between 100,000 and 8 million ChatGPT queries depending on whose estimate you trust. A pair of jeans cost 7,500 liters before it reached your closet. One toilet flush is 6 liters, or about 20,000 queries. US golf courses pour out around 1.5 billion gallons every day, dwarfing the direct cooling water of every data center in the country. So why does the robot demanding a thousand glasses of water feel true? Because the totals sound enormous and nobody does the division. "Data centers consumed billions of gallons" is accurate and terrifying right up until you divide billions of gallons by trillions of queries and get a number smaller than the drop left in your glass when you think it's empty. The legitimate water story is local. A big facility sited in a drought-stressed basin can strain that specific community, which is why Chile blocked one. That's a siting problem, solvable with policy and closed-loop cooling. The cartoon will outlive the correction anyway. Per-unit math never beats a thirsty robot at the foot of the bed.

To put things in context, we could zero-out Musk and the next nine Americans (Zuck, Bezos, Page, Brin, Ellison, Huang, Buffet, and two Waltons), and it would cover 6% of the US debt. It would cover only 1/4 of the debt added by Trump alone.

Some good books.

I’ve been informed by folks on this site that The Hobbit and now Jane Austen are too difficult for teens. I can’t stress enough how condescending this is to teenagers. You’re taking away all the things that might bring them joy and leaving them with no pastimes but scrolling.

This is the flight set to take multiple people who proved to an immigration judge that they would be persecuted in their home countries and dump them in a war-torn nation that the United States warns its own citizens to avoid traveling to for any reason. Stop the flight!

Claude has downgraded me to ELIZA.